Questions and answers
Straight answers for independent publishers comparing software, planning a migration, and building a connected operation.
Simply Publishing is for independent publishers who want title records, editions, contributors, and operations in one system. Book a demo to map your workflows and confirm the availability of any specialist capabilities you need.
That is the point of the first foundation: a shared work and edition record that can hold identifiers, contributors, release context, and the relationships a publishing team needs to trust.
Each channel’s statement export comes in through Record Imports. You map its columns once, preview the counts and any unmatched rows before anything is written, and every sales line keeps the file and row it came from. An import made from the wrong file can be undone.
Not yet. Today you can record contracts, royalty terms, payees, and rights grants beside each work, and import sales lines from channel statements. Royalty calculation will be shaped around a partner’s real contracts when one needs it.
A protected author experience is planned, but it will not open until protected access, document authorization, and publication controls have been validated for sensitive documents.
The title and edition model is deliberately format-aware. Digital delivery has an existing foundation; print-production workflows will be shaped from the first partner’s real handoffs and stock evidence.
The Simply360 team works directly with your editorial, operations, rights, and production leads. The goal is a dependable operating foundation, not an unattended software handoff.
No. AI is optional and off until a publishing team chooses to use it. It can help staff inspect records or prepare drafts, but it does not approve contracts or payments, publish documents, or replace editorial, rights, or production judgment. The Optional AI page explains the boundary, and the pricing page shows the AI usage allowance and costs.
Show us the title sheet, the sales statement export, the author-document path, or the production handoff that currently depends on a spreadsheet. We will map the workflow, confirm the right plan, and walk through implementation.
